Isaak Pomeranchuk
Isaak Pomeranchuk · Science & Medicine
Physicist; the Pomeranchuk theorem and Pomeranchuk cooling
1913, Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland) — 1966, Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Soviet Union (Russia)
Isaak Pomeranchuk is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; the Pomeranchuk theorem and Pomeranchuk cooling
Isaak Pomeranchuk was a Soviet theoretical physicist whose name lives on in the Pomeranchuk theorem of high-energy scattering and in Pomeranchuk cooling, a technique used to reach ultra-low temperatures. He was Jewish and a founder of Soviet particle and reactor physics. His ideas remain central to high-energy theory and low-temperature physics.
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Physicist; the Pomeranchuk theorem and Pomeranchuk cooling
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